By Niall Gartland IT was always going to be difficult to say no to new Louth manager Gavin Devlin. Ronan O’Neill spent the bulk of his intercounty days playing under Mickey Harte and his right-hand man Devlin, and there was no shortage of respect for the Ardboe man. Then there’s Devlin’s persistence – he was on […]
The new Fermanagh manager tells Gaelic Life that extensive squad building will be high on his agenda By Shaun Casey THE Fermanagh job wasn’t necessarily on Declan Bonner’s radar when Kieran Donnelly stepped aside after four years in charge, but the idea of pulling on the bainisteoir bib at inter-county level once again did spark […]
By Pauric McGurn ERNE Gaels manager Declan Bonner said “we’re all human beings and mistakes can be made” after some major and controversial decisions were called during the Senior Football League Division One Final. Two two-pointers from Stephen McGullion and Jarlath Flanagan helped Derrygonnelly Harps to victory, although video footage later showed they should have […]
By Shaun Casey THERE wasn’t much to do around Roslea growing up, other than kicking ball around the backyard and that’s where Sean Quigley honed his footballing craft alongside older brothers Conor and Seamus. They formed a connection that saw them compete alongside each other at both club and county level, although the brotherly love […]
By Pauric McGurn FERMANAGH reserved their season’s best performance for the grandest stage in accounting for Wexford at Croke Park on Sunday 0-25 to 1-17, their first triumph at the iconic Jones’ Road venue for over 20 years. It was an outcome and performance which delighted manager Kieran Donnelly and the beaming Brookeborough man was doubly pleased […]
By Katrina Brennan FERMANAGH manager Kieran Donnelly has said they were “blindsided” by the decision to suspend the Dr McKenna Cup next year. The decision comes following a campaign over a number of years by the GPA (Gaelic Players’ Association) to abolish the pre-season inter-county competitions and at the weekend, the GAA Central Council voted to […]
By Katrina Brennan IT was a case of job done, as ‘ugly’ as it may have been for Enniskillen and their manager Simon Bradley. “We set out at the start of the year to try and do as best as we could without the county lads and it put us in a great spot and we […]
By Niall Gartland DEVENISH boss Sylvester ‘Sid’ Mulrone insists that this season will be his last at the helm, no matter what happens in the coming weeks and months. The 68-year-old is in the fourth year of his latest stint in charge of his home club, leading the team alongside former Fermanagh player Marty O’Brien. […]
By Katrina Brennan THE ‘carrot’ dangling before Fermanagh this Saturday is a home quarter-final and a week’s rest if they can overcome Laois, in Longford, and top the group. That’s a pretty tasty outcome and Fermanagh manager, Kieran Donnelly knows it. He also knows they’ll have to produce a top performance to beat Justin McNulty’s […]
By Michael McMullan FORMER Fermanagh manager Dominic Corrigan has described the late Gerry McElroy as one of the best forwards of his generation. McElroy was laid to rest on Tuesday in Lisnaskea with hundreds of mourners in attendance from across Fermanagh and beyond. Speaking on this week’s Gaelic Lives podcast ahead of Fermanagh’s Ulster Championship […]
